NYT: Torturing Whistleblowers (Gubbamint Employee Moldy-Homes Disease)
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Subject: NYT: Torturing Whistleblowers (Gubbamint Employee Moldy-Homes
Disease)
Date: Feb 11, 2011 1:28 PM
ARTICLE BELOW
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Yes. Thank you. They do do that.
Blame the Victim.
America is one cowardly-ass nation.
And Yes; molds cause Chronic Fatigue-Lyme.
It's all the same disease:
http://www.actionlyme.org/101016.htm
It's a form of AIDS, Acquired Immune
Deficiency.
And this is why Pfizer bit-the-biscuits,
UConn and Yale were defunded, and UConn
did not get their $100 million for a new
hospital (it went to Ohio, instead, where
they have Clifford Harding:
http://www.actionlyme.org/101016.htm
Stupid crooks pretending to be scientists.
Yes, they will ruin you and your family
if you reveal their incompetence, because
that's the nature of cowards.
BTV-Killers (Blame the Victims)
Think: They don't have any other formulary
for what to do with their victims, including
members of the military.
They have always done this. They do it
because they're afraid the Russians or the
Chinese will gain an edge on them if certain
secrets are revealed.
Too Late. They're already way ahead of us.
Why? Exactly because of this Blame the
Victim behavior. Whenever the Dot Guv
slanders or libels or slams sick people in
jail and takes their kids, that's the
clue.
There's nothing left to hide. Bioweapons
is done. Over. Unstealth. The Chinese
beat us at our own game:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20487023
Stealth, ^^^ undetectable with the normal primers
and antibiotic resistant.
:)))
KMDickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
http://www.relapsingfever.org
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Subject: Ex-C.I.A. Agent Goes Public With Story of Mistreatment, Mold
and Terrorism on the Job
Date: Feb 11, 2011 12:11 PM
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Ex-C.I.A. Agent Goes Public With Story of Mistreatment, Mold and
Terrorism on the Job
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/us/politics/11secrets.html?_r=1
Ex-C.I.A. Agent Goes Public With Story of Mistreatment on the Job
By CHARLIE SAVAGE
Published: February 10, 2011
WASHINGTON — In many ways, the personal injury lawsuit looked routine:
In late 2001, a government employee and his family sued the agency he
worked for, saying it had placed them in a mold-contaminated home that
made them sick and required nearly all their possessions to be
destroyed.
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But this was no ordinary case. The employee, Kevin M. Shipp, was a
veteran Central Intelligence Agencyofficer. His home was at Camp
Stanley, an Army weapons depot just north of San Antonio, in an area
where the drinking water was polluted with toxic chemicals. The post
includes a secret C.I.A. facility.
Declaring that its need to protect state secrets outweighed the
Shipps’ right to a day in court, the government persuaded a judge to
seal the case and order the family and their lawyers not to discuss
it, and to later dismiss the lawsuit without any hearing on the
merits, Mr. Shipp said.
More than half a decade later, Mr. Shipp is going public with his
story. He contends that the events broke up his marriage and destroyed
his career, and that C.I.A. officials abused the State Secrets
Privilege doctrine in an effort to cover up their own negligence.
Jennifer Youngblood, a C.I.A. spokeswoman, denied any wrongdoing by
the agency. “The C.I.A. takes great care to help protect the health
and welfare of its employees,” she said.
Mr. Shipp recently completed a memoir filled with unclassified
documents that he said backed up his assertions. He says that he
submitted the manuscript to the agency for the required prepublication
review but that it blacked out swaths of information, like accounts of
his children’s nosebleeds, strange rashes, vomiting, severe asthma and
memory loss.
Citing a confidentiality agreement he signed with the government, Mr.
Shipp would not discuss where the secret facility was located, what
its purpose was, which agency he worked for or what his duties were.
Still, he said, he was free to say that he worked at C.I.A.
headquarters in Langley, Va., both before and after his stint at the
facility. And public documents from a separate lawsuit, which he filed
against his insurance carrier over a claim for his family’s destroyed
belongings, make clear that he was stationed at Camp Stanley.
Mr. Shipp’s ex-wife, Lorena Shipp, and one of his sons, Joel Shipp,
now 28, said in interviews that the C.I.A. had assigned Mr. Shipp to a
high-ranking job at the facility to uncover suspected security
breaches. The family moved to an Army-owned house at Camp Stanley in
June 1999 and left in May 2001.
It is not clear what took place at the C.I.A. facility. But the camp
had been used as a weapons depot for generations. Joel and Lorena
Shipp described bunkers and many old weapons, including Soviet
weaponry. They also said that they occasionally saw officials
performing tactical drills, and that sometimes items were burned or
buried there.
“The house that our family was moved into was planted on top of a lot
of buried ammunition,” Joel Shipp said. “One time me and my little
brother dug up a mustard gas shell.”
The Shipps soon began to get sick. First they got nosebleeds, then
they developed symptoms that doctors said resembled H.I.V. infection
or exposure to radiation, according to family members. Eventually,
Kevin Shipp said, he discovered that the house was full of a spreading
black substance.
Camp Stanley has a troubled environmental record. In August 2001,
according to local news reports, military officials began distributing
bottled water to residents nearby after it was discovered that toxins
from the camp had polluted an aquifer in the area, contaminating the
drinking water.
The Shipps said they were twice evacuated from the house after
expressing concern about their sudden health troubles. But, Kevin
Shipp said, his supervisor played down the problems, declaring that
the house was fine after its air was tested — although the windows and
doors were open at the time, Mr. Shipp said.
Suspicious of a cover-up, Mr. Shipp said he sent samples from the
house to a scientist atTexas Tech University. His manuscript includes
a Texas Tech report showing that the samples tested positive for toxic
mold.
Eventually, the Shipps sued the C.I.A. using pseudonyms. Meanwhile,
Mr. Shipp was transferred to the agency’s headquarters, where he
became a polygraph operator. But his relationship with the agency was
deteriorating, and the family began to suspect that they had been
placed under surveillance.
Mr. Shipp said he quit in 2002 after he was accused of using a
government credit card to pay for personal expenses; he says he paid
the money back, but had been told by a supervisor to use the card for
clothes and lodging after his family had to leave the house and their
old clothes were destroyed.
A federal judge overseeing the case ordered the family and the C.I.A.
into mediation. Mr. Shipp’s memoir includes a December 2003 settlement
agreement — signed by a government counsel — under which the family
would be paid $400,000 and would have to stay silent about the matter.
But two days later, he said, one of his attorneys, Clint Blackman,
called him to say that the government had withdrawn the settlement.
The case would be fought out in court.
The case was already sealed, and the Justice Department invoked the
State Secrets Privilege — a judicially created doctrine that the
government has increasingly used to win the dismissal of lawsuits
related to national security, shielding its actions from judicial
review.
A federal judge dismissed the case, and an appeals court in New
Orleans, in a secret ruling, later upheld that dismissal, Mr. Shipp
said. Mr. Shipp’s manuscript mentions several other lawyers who helped
him in the case, including Mark Zaid of Washington, who has
represented many intelligence officials in lawsuits against the
government, and Jonathan Turley, a George Washington University law
professor who has filed several lawsuits challenging claims of
executive secrecy.
Mr. Blackman and Mr. Zaid confirmed that Mr. Shipp had been a client,
but they declined to discuss any sealed lawsuit. Mr. Turley confirmed
that he had been asked to consult on the case, but said he was never
given details about it.
Mr. Shipp has moved to Florida and tried to rebuild his life. But
angry at what had happened to his family, he says he has decided to go
public, no matter the risk of talking about a sealed case.
“I decided to just sacrifice myself for the public to know what they
did, how illegal it was, how flawed the State Secrets Privilege is,
and how they used it to cover up the destruction of my family,” he
said. “It’s just abominable what they did.”
KMDickson